I've got a SHOUTcast server running on Ubuntu. The server process is running great, but I can't seem to get the daemon script to function properly. Following a couple tutorials I found I came up with this:
#!/bin/sh
CONFIG="/home/apps/shout32/sc_plex.conf"
DAEMON="/home/apps/shout32/sc_serv"
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting SC..."
$DAEMON $CONFIG > /dev/null 2>&1 &
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping SC..."
kill -9 `ps -C sc_serv -o pid --no-headers`
;;
restart)
echo "Rebooting SC..."
kill -9 `ps -C sc_serv -o pid --no-headers`
$DAEMON $CONFIG > /dev/null 2>&1 &
;;
*)
echo "usage: service sc32d {start | stop | restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
This however does not work. I didn't know what a lot of this meant, so I started to break it down line by line. If I remove the /dev/null stuff - which as I now understand keeps the program running 'silent' in the background - I get this message, and the program closes:
root@streams3:/etc/init.d# service sc32d start
Starting SC...
root@streams3:/etc/init.d# 2013-05-21 14:41:50 E msg:<***> logger could not open file logs/sc_serv.log
2013-05-21 14:41:50 I msg:<***> Logger shutdown
root@streams3:/etc/init.d#
root@streams3:/etc/init.d# ps -C sc_serv
PID TTY TIME CMD
root@streams3:/etc/init.d#
I was still in the process of researching what exactly /dev/null did and why, so I wanted to run those commands with all the /dev/null stuff by hand, which I did, and that's where I got some sort of error code:
root@streams3:/etc/init.d# /home/apps/shout32/sc_serv /home/apps/shout32/sc_plex.conf > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[2] 2261
root@streams3:/etc/init.d#
[2]- Exit 255 /home/apps/shout32/sc_serv /home/apps/shout32/sc_plex.conf > /dev/null 2>&1
root@streams3:/etc/init.d# ps -C sc_serv
PID TTY TIME CMD
Unfortunately from the brief amount of research I did it sounds like 'Exit 225' is like a catch-all error code for codes that are outside of the acceptable range of codes.
The interesting part of the whole issue is this: When I navigate to the /home/apps/shout32/ folder, and run the commands there, without the full path... damn thing works:
root@streams3:/home/apps/shout32# ./sc_serv sc_plex.conf > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[2] 2245
root@streams3:/home/apps/shout32#
root@streams3:/home/apps/shout32# ps -C sc_serv
PID TTY TIME CMD
2245 pts/0 00:00:00 sc_serv
So, something is messing up because the script file is in /etc/init.d/ and not in the folder the application is in? As far as I know I followed every step in the published tutorials for setting up SHOUTcast in Ubuntu and then making a daemon... I don't think I missed anything. I have a feeling the solution is either staring me right in the face or its some sort of obscure permissions thing that's a bit over my head.
But any help would be greatly appreciated!
So, based on an answer below I added cd /home/apps/shout32/ to the START command in my script, also added pwd and ls... to see if we could eliminate the fact that the script couldn't find the /log/ directory.
So now my script is:
CONFIG="/home/apps/shout32/sc_plex.conf"
DAEMON="/home/apps/shout32/sc_serv"
cd /home/apps/shout32/
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting SC..."
cd /home/apps/shout32/
pwd
ls
$DAEMON $CONFIG &
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping SC..."
kill -9 `ps -C sc_serv -o pid --no-headers`
;;
restart)
echo "Rebooting SC..."
kill -9 `ps -C sc_serv -o pid --no-headers`
$DAEMON $CONFIG &
;;
*)
echo "usage: service sc32d {start | stop | restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
I got this:
admin@streams3:/etc/init.d$ service sc32d start
Starting SC...
/home/apps/shout32
changes.txt readme.txt sc_serv_debug.conf
config_builder sc_plex.conf sc_serv_public.conf
control sc_serv sc_serv_relay.conf
docs sc_serv2_linux_07_31_2011.tar sc_serv_simple.conf
logs sc_serv_basic.conf tos.txt
admin@streams3:/etc/init.d$ 2013-06-05 17:52:08 E msg:<***> logger could not open file logs/sc_serv.log
2013-06-05 17:52:08 I msg:<***> Logger shutdown
